Reply to d’Huy et al.: Navigating biases and charting new ground in the cultural diffusion of folktales
Reply to d’Huy et al.: Navigating biases and charting new ground in the cultural diffusion of folktales
E. Bortolini,Luca Pagani,10 Authors,J. Tehrani
2017 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715139114
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 3 Citations
TLDR
In their letter, d’Huy et al. (1) challenge the novelty of the study, question the reliability of some results in the light of previous folkloric research and geographic biases in the Aarne Thompson Uther (ATU) index, and explain how their criticisms are already largely addressed in the paper.